Special Topic for the New Year

THE FUTURE: OUR HOPES & OUR DREAMS

by DNT

Welcome to the Year of the Buffalo, and welcome back to HYEC! :-)

When meeting again right after the New Year holiday, we usually give each other nice wishes such as: “I wish you a very successful year” (năm mới thành công), “I wish that everything will go according to your plan” (vạn sự như ý). Obviously, it’s human nature to dream, to hope, and to plan for the future. But can we tell if our dreams are realistic, and our expectations are not too high? To answer these questions, some people like to go to see fortune tellers so they can make better plans!

Here are some quotes about the future:

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
— Alan Kay

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
— Albert Einstein

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."
— Martin Luther King

What do you think about the above quotes? Do you agree with them? Can you share some of your experiences to illustrate the meanings of these quotes?